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  • Eli Lilly says next-gen obesity drug curbs sleep apnea, among other benefits

    Source: Reuters

    “Drugmaker Eli Lilly presented trial results to medical professionals on Saturday showing its next-generation ​obesity drug retatrutide curbed sleep apnea severity in ‌addition to boosting weight loss and helping knee pain. In a Phase 3 trial, Lilly found a weekly injection of retatrutide reduced ​moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea severity by 60.6% ​in adults with obesity. Lilly’s older drug Zepbound ⁠is approved for the condition. In the same trial, the ​drug reduced knee osteoarthritis pain by up to 73.1%, ​Lilly found. The results were presented at an American Diabetes Association conference in New Orleans.” (06/06/26)

    https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/eli-lilly-says-next-gen-obesity-drug-curbs-sleep-apnea-among-other-benefits-2026-06-06/

  • NY: Court Pauses Default Judgment After Lawyer Argues 39,069 Bitcoin Wallets Were Not Abandoned

    Source: Bitcoin.com

    “A New York attorney intervened to stop what could have been the largest courtroom judgment in bitcoin in history, filing an amicus brief that persuaded a judge to freeze proceedings targeting nearly 40,000 dormant wallets collectively holding an estimated 3.8 million BTC. The legal battle is unfolding alongside a wave of onchain activity from some of bitcoin’s oldest addresses. On June 6, 2026, Galaxy Research flagged a transaction involving 47.26 BTC, worth approximately $2.88 million, moving out of a wallet that had been untouched since June 17, 2011, a dormancy period of more than 15 years. … Each of these movements chips away at the central premise of the lawsuit: that these wallets were abandoned.” (06/06/26)
    https://news.bitcoin.com/ny-court-pauses-default-judgment-after-lawyer-argues-39069-bitcoin-wallets-were-not-abandoned/

  • India: Mock political party for young “cockroaches” holds first street protest

    Source: Associated Press

    “Hundreds of supporters of the Cockroach Janata Party, an online joke that has drawn millions of followers across India, gathered for the first time in the capital on Saturday for its biggest real-world test yet. The protest near Parliament in New Delhi marked the movement’s first step into street politics after weeks of dominating social media feeds and news headlines, attracting widespread support among young Indians. … The event was an early test of whether the movement can channel its online popularity into a broader grassroots support around growing frustration among young Indians over education, jobs and economic prospects. Another challenge is how the party would navigate the kind of pushback that earlier protest movements have faced under Modi’s government.” (06/06/26)

    https://apnews.com/article/india-cockroach-janata-party-2c74e5597c1a7a4ac5a49ee8ce72f1cd

  • Trump to meet with AI companies on communist nationalization scheme as soon as next week

    Source: Politico

    “President Donald Trump said he will likely meet with AI companies at the White House next week to discuss what he called a federal government ‘partnership’ that would allow the American people to profit in their success. The president said Friday that the program, which could include sending company dividends to Americans, would help secure buy-in from a public that remains skeptical about long-term disruptions — including to the labor market — of the technology. ‘There’s a concept out there, there’s so much money and it’s so big that there are concepts where pieces could be given to the American public, where the American public essentially becomes a partner with the companies,’ Trump told reporters en route to an unrelated event in Wisconsin.” (06/05/26)

    https://archive.is/g4f0q


  • We Don’t Need AI to Tell Us Donald is a Red

    Source: Garrison Center
    by Thomas L Knapp

    “By virtually any metric, Trump is devoted to central economic planning and government control of American industry. To, that is, socialism. What separates him from other, actually admitted, socialists like [US Senator Bernie] Sanders and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn’t that they’re any more or less committed to ‘socialism,’ it’s the specific TYPE of socialism.” (06/07/26)

    https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20687

  • Is Japan a Libertarian Paradise? Not Quite.

    Source: Reason
    by Lloyd Botway

    “After a trip to Japan, tourists often return dazzled by the beauty of the land, the politeness of the people, the safety of the cities, the world-class transportation systems, and the delicious food. Many also come away with the impression that Japan enjoys a high degree of economic and personal freedom. Construction flourishes. Businesses thrive. Goods from all over the world are available, and shopping seems to be a national pastime. Homeless people are nowhere to be seen. People travel freely throughout the country. But behind Japan’s economic success lies a government and a legal system that clearly prioritize social stability and group harmony over individual rights.” (06/07/26)

    https://reason.com/2026/06/07/is-japan-a-libertarian-paradise-not-quite/

  • The Russia-China Partnership Was Made in America

    Source: The American Conservative
    by Ted Galen Carpenter

    “Last month’s summit meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping — during which the leaders signed over 40 cooperation agreements and deepened their nations’ strategic partnership — provides just the latest sign that diplomatic, economic, and military cooperation between Russia and China is robust and continues to rise. That trend is profoundly distressing to political and media elites in the United States, most of whom are fervent defenders of America’s fading global hegemony. But they can hardly claim that Russian–Chinese cooperation was unforeseeable, considering Washington’s own clumsy and inept policies have been its chief cause, as many warned would be the case. Hostile measures that successive, post-Cold War U.S. administrations pursued toward Moscow virtually drove Russia into Beijing’s arms.” (06/07/26)

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-russia-china-partnership-was-made-in-america/

  • Two Open Source Solutions for Technocratic Control

    Source: Agorist Nexus
    by TechLibre

    “The noose tightens. Not with a bang, but with a thousand small cuts—social credit scores, ISP blacklists, library book bans, and the quiet revocation of property rights on devices you thought you owned. The technocratic state doesn’t need to kick down your door. It just needs you to keep renting your knowledge, your books, and your attention from its approved vendors. That’s where these reviews come in. I’ve tested two open source tools that let you opt out of the surveillance economy and build your own infrastructure. One is a terabyte-sized fire hose of offline knowledg — Wikipedia, Khan Academy, medical references, maps, and optional local AI. The other is a quiet, essential tool for anyone who remembers when buying a book actually meant owning it. Neither requires a subscription. Neither phones home. Neither asks permission.” (06/07/26)

    https://www.agoristnexus.com/two-open-source-solutions-for-technocratic-control/

  • The Surveillance State Found Its Philosopher

    Source: Libertarian Institute
    by Thomas Karat

    “There is a line in the Fourth Amendment that was supposed to settle this. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause. It is not a suggestion. It does not contain an exception for emergencies, for terrorism, for immigration, or for your own good. It was written by men who had watched a government treat a population as a thing to be catalogued, and who meant to draw a line that no administration could cross no matter how frightened the public could be made to feel. That line is being erased right now, not by a vote and not by an amendment, but by a software contract. And the man holding the pen spent his academic career studying exactly how this happens.” (06/05/26)

    https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-surveillance-state-found-its-philosopher

  • Israel Could Solve Its PR Problem By Simply Ceasing To Be Evil

    Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
    by Caitlin Johnstone

    “Israel’s +972 Magazine reports that the Israeli military establishment has launched a training program designed to ‘influence public consciousness’ around the world, with courses aimed at training hundreds of operatives per year in strategies for ‘actively disrupting or manipulating the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of target audiences.’ … It’s such a trip how Zionists just take it as a given that the only way to improve public perception of Israel is to ramp up efforts to manipulate the thoughts people think about it. They never give serious attention to the possibility that Israel would have a lot more public approval if it stopped fucking murdering innocent civilians all the time and fucking torturing people and raping captives with trained rape dogs. Israel can’t possibly be wrong; only our thoughts about Israel can be wrong.” (06/06/26)

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/06/06/israel-could-solve-its-pr-problem-by-simply-ceasing-to-be-evil/

  • Civilizations Are Transaction Costs

    Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
    by Vladyslav Manzyuk

    “A state works when its formal institutions align with and reinforce the informal order beneath it. It fails when it overrides that order. Yugoslavia assembled populations whose informal institutions — Austro-Hungarian civil law in Slovenia and Croatia, historically distinct legal traditions further east, shaped by Ottoman frameworks, distinct religious frameworks governing commercial obligation — had long created high transaction costs across the same lines the state tried to erase. Iraq assembled three distinct Ottoman administrative provinces. Borders do not erase gradients. These are not failures of tolerance or political will — and it is worth noting that no amount of well-intentioned, constitution-drafting has ever repealed an institutional gradient. They are the predictable outcome of a constructed order imposed on an incompatible spontaneous one, which pushes back through informal markets, parallel institutions, and eventually political fragmentation.” (06/06/26)

    https://mises.org/mises-wire/civilizations-are-transaction-costs

  • A financial catastrophe is looming. America forgot to care.

    Source: Washington Post
    by Matthew Lynn

    “The price that the U.S. government has to pay to borrow money for 30 years has already punched through 5 percent a year, its highest level since the financial crisis of 2007. For 10-year money, the annual price is 4.6 percent and climbing. Amid all the noise about the rise of artificial intelligence and the booming space economy, something far more significant is happening in the financial markets. The cost of borrowing is being reset. And that raises some intriguing questions. Could the politics of deficit reduction stage a comeback? And are voters in any mood to pay attention if it does?” (06/05/26)

    https://archive.is/AFyZt

  • Child’s play is more than just that

    Source: Christian Science Monitor
    by staff

    “As schools across the United States let out for summer vacation, more parents and policymakers are trying to make sure kids can get out there and just be kids – by stepping away from screens, playing in the open air, or biking to a friend’s house or the local store. And, they say, kids should be allowed to do all of this without a parent hovering over them – or that parent being held liable for not doing so. In May, the U.S. House introduced a bipartisan bill to promote ‘childhood independence and protect parents who allow their children to play outside unsupervised, get off screens, and develop social skills.’ Earlier this year, Indiana became the 13th state to pass a measure shielding parents from child neglect allegations for certain unsupervised activities.” (06/05/26)

    https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0605/Child-s-play-is-more-than-just-that

  • AI’s Facelessness Risks Soullessness — and With It Liberalism

    Source: The UnPopulist
    by Michal G Holzman

    “Progress and technological development brought the atom bomb and death camps, too. To some extent the mid-century crisis led to an expansion of liberalism under the umbrella of U.S. global hegemony. The question of the 1940s Civil Rights Movement — ‘How can we fight for human equality overseas and then return home to Jim Crow?’ — became the philosophical underpinning for massively expanded access to the liberal project. The universal message of human dignity was on the march, literally and figuratively. It extended its reach across lines of race, religion, sex, and sexuality in ways that would have been practically unimaginable a generation before. But even as liberalism expanded it was being undercut. In response to both the perverted turn of modernity and the creeping spread of a postmodern nihilism, traditionalism grew, and people began to give up on progress and retreat into pre-modern bubbles of ritual, isolated community, and centralized authority.” (06/05/26)

    https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/ais-facelessness-risks-soullessnessand

  • The Curse of Being a Historian

    Source: Town Hall
    by Mark Lewis

    “I’m sorry, folks. I really, truly wish I could be an optimist. I wish I could write positive articles, telling us that America’s golden days are yet to come, that a bright and shining tomorrow awaits our nation, and the reasons are A, B, C, X, Y, Z. I sincerely wish I could do that. But I’m a historian, and as much as that, a student of the Bible. I have degrees in both subjects, have taught both for literally half a century, and have written thousands of articles in each field. I confess, such tends to make me cynical. But maybe, just maybe, America’s best days do still lie ahead of her; I’m a historian, not a prophet. Yet, to be perfectly honest with you, I don’t have a lot of hope, and history is the reason why.” (06/06/26)

    https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/06/06/the-curse-of-being-a-historian-n2677332

  • The Tax You Never Voted For

    Source: Libertarian Party
    by Evan McMahon

    “The next time you sign a mortgage, finance a car, or open a credit-card statement and wonder why the number keeps creeping upward, here is your answer: you are paying a tax that no one in Washington had the nerve to call a tax. Here is how the bill reaches you: the bond market — the millions of investors who lend the federal government its money — is getting nervous about lending to a government this deep in the red. When they get nervous, they demand higher interest, and the yield on the 10-year Treasury note climbs. That single number quietly sets what you pay on your mortgage, your auto loan, and your credit card. You never saw a ballot. You never got a vote. But the borrowing gets charged to your account all the same.” (06/05/26)

    https://lp.org/the-tax-you-never-voted-for/

  • The Myth of the K-Shaped Economy

    Source: CounterPunch
    by David S D’Amato

    “The corporate press has a new obsession, the so-called K-shaped economy. This metaphor is meant to describe a system in which one group of people, represented by the top, inclining line of the K, watches their fortunes rise as the other group’s fortunes fall. The idea is that Americans who are already doing well financially are doing better, while conditions worsen for those already struggling to make ends meet. The problem is that when we use this letter K shorthand, we lose almost all of the information that’s important to analyzing the broader problem, and we therefore help an extremely concentrated ruling class hide the truth of what has happened.” (06/05/26)

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/05/the-myth-of-the-k-shaped-economy/

  • Without a US-Iran Peace Deal, World Headed for Energy Crisis Apocalypse

    Source: Informed Comment
    by Juan Cole

    “The International Energy Agency has made its May report free to download, and the news is not good for the second and third quarters of this year, i.e. April-September. The IEA hopes things will look up in the fourth quarter, but premises that expectation on an early end to the US conflict with Iran and a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. At the moment (June 5, 2026), there does not seem much movement on that front, and in fact the US and Iran are not only skirmishing with one another but Iran is making good its threat to hurt US allies like Bahrain and Kuwait every time the US hurts Iran. One was killed and dozens injured in Kuwait on Wednesday by Iranian Shahed drone barrages that also damaged the airport. Kuwait Airlines shut down briefly but is now flying from a different terminal; it is the only carrier flying from Kuwait.” (06/05/26)

    https://www.juancole.com/2026/06/operational-without-hormuz.html

  • Ayn Rand’s Italian Debut

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Robert Steven Mack

    “If Zohran Mamdani intended to come across as an Ayn Rand villain when he pledged to ‘“replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,’ he succeeded. Unfortunately, socialism continues to appeal to young people on the left, as both parties jettison free market principles. If there is one author who has inspired young people to think differently about these big ideas, it is Ayn Rand, who is remembered as the author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. While the philosophical system she created, Objectivism, remains at the fringe of culture and academia, her moral defence of capitalism has inspired figures such as former Speaker Paul Ryan and former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan. Yet one of her lesser-known books, We the Living, deserves more attention than it gets.” (06/05/26)

    https://lawliberty.org/ayn-rands-italian-debut/